I don't know where to put this, so I'll put it here. If Animals were pokemon, what abilities, types and moves would they have?
I know virtually nothing about Pokémon, but I guess animals would just have exaggerated powers of their existing powers eg. snow leopard long jumping
I think about this all the time lmao its such a fun concept. I've even gotten halfway through writing ''pokedex"es (encyclopedias I guess) of what animals would have what types in a North American region, African region, what can evolve into what, etc. It's quite fun to assign yourself "teams" as well. Like I'd have a Nile crocodile (Water/dragon), Scottish wildcat (dark), Red-tailed hawk (fire/flying), etc etc
I'll start with some animals and their possible typings. Red Kangaroo (Fighting/Ground) Electric Eel (Water/Electric) Polar Bear (Water/Ice) Giant Panda (Grass/Fighting?) American Crow (Dark/Flying) Komodo Dragon (Dragon/Poison) Mantis Shrimp (Water/Fighting) These are just some of the obvious ones. I'm not good at creating moves and abilities.
I just made a list of a few marsupials and what I would type them as: I had red kangaroo as fire/fighting, but I could see ground as well! I would say Giant Panda would be grass/psychic, or just grass I'm trying to place a type for an African elephant, but I can't really place one (Ground/rock? Rock/steel? Water? Grass?) Honey Badger - Electric African Lion - Fire (Fire/dark? Fire/electric?) Bengal Tiger - Fire/Dark Cheetah - Electric Orangutan - Psychic Chimpanzee - Dark/psychic or dark/fighting (maybe it could vary for male/female chimps) Gorilla - Fighting Cassowary - Dragon/fighting
I would likely use Okapi (Grass), Black Footed Cat (Rock/Dark), Honey Badger (Dark/Fairy?), Red River Hog (Water/Electric), and Trumpeter Hornbill (Normal/Flying)
If I had to make myself a team (this is really fun to do actually) I'd say: Scottish Wildcat - Dark -Crunch -Hyper-fang -Crush Claw -Night Slash African Elephant - Grass/Rock -Woodhammer -Mega Drain -Earthquake -Ancient Power Bengal Tiger - Fire -Fire Fang -Flare Blitz -Flamethrower -Snarl Eastern Gorilla - Fighting -Seismic Toss -Submission -Dynamic Punch -Superpower BUT if this were actually like the games and I could only catch stuff that's like, within a walking distance/I've seen in the wild/my pets already, I'd go: Bearded Dragon - Ground/Dragon Schnoodle Dog - Normal/Fairy European Badger - Dark/Ground Common Buzzard - Flying Roe Deer - Grass Grey Heron - Water/Flying